Aha! They are back at the wormhole. This isn’t good, because if they are hugging the hole, they can just jump out when I show up. Oh well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I get back in the Caracal. (Yeah, I really need to bring a better selection of PvP ships in here. My Worm would be sweet for this.)

Warp the Caracal to zero on the wormhole, sensor boosters hot. There she is! Start locking, warm up the guns and the warp disruptor, surely this isn’t going to work?

Wow. Corpse is 8,000 meters from the wormhole. Who sits stationary, near a wormhole but not actually close enough to jump through? I musta shot me a newbie. Hope I didn’t just convince someone on their first wormhole peeping expedition that wormholes are deadly and never to be visited again!

No, wait, let’s look up Wysi. Caldari Provisions, check. Age… wait, really? January of 2006? She’s been playing for three months longer than me, and still got podded by a T1 cruiser?

Never, boys and girls, underestimate the power of surprise.

It turns out, “she” is kind of cute, too:

Or maybe I should say was. She’s not looking so good now:

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Part of the reason for W-space is to entice carebears out of hi-sec.
If you never bite on flashing reds, and don’t set yourself up for cost/benefit suicide ganking, you can completely avoid lethal PvP. Maybe they hadn’t used a cloak before?

Yeah, why would you have a cloak and _not_ turn it on, if you’re 8k from the wormhole. Something wrong with that picture, but you were probably right about them having their head in the scanner screen.

The first few times I got killed in this game — well, really, ALL the times, until I spent a few months in Faction Warfare and it became routine — I panicked, thrashed at the interface, clicked wildly in bad places, and utterly failed to do any of the things that might have saved me. I think a lot of us have forgotten that feeling, but I also think it explains a lot of the “but, he just SAT there!” moments.

Well, this blog was real fun while there was the salvage theme, but now you’re just another run of the mill bully picking on defenseless folks. I could stomach it when people were stupid enough to fall for your can flippin tricks in high-sec (it was even a little funny) – but as soon as you got away from Concord you started this bully crap where people don’t even have to make mistakes . Can’t say that I’m surprised. Whatever floats your boat…

I’m not sure what you mean, Erick. I’ve got territorial ambitions that I’m defending, and a sharply limited set of resources in “my” w-space. How is it bullying to attack invaders in an attempt to remove them from my space so they don’t compete with me for resources?

And I don’t know what “don’t even have to make mistakes” means. If they don’t make mistakes, they don’t die…